Living Rent-Free Next to Millionaires

Just off the shore of one of the nation’s most expensive zip codes, a community of free-spirited boat dwellers have found a way to live rent-free next to millionaires. Known locally as “anchor-outs,” their aging vessels float illegally on the waters off Sausalito, an exclusive enclave in the San Francisco Bay Area. But now, as enforcement ramps up, their floating utopia is under threat.



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[tippin.turtle]

It's okay if the oil companies destroy the Gulf but a gas can on a personal watercraft is a real "threat" to the environment. Amazing!

[CosmicComputer]

When a poor guy hits a rich guys dock with his boat, we change laws and hire people to destroy his property, when a rich man exploits a poor man’s labor for 50 years and gambles, loses and destroys the poor man’s retirement savings, we give the rich man our tax money because he’s too big to fail and that’s all you need to know about America in 2022 really.

[KarlRock]

I get REALLY bad vibes from that rich guy.

[tigolbitties]

Talking to a finance guy and assuming he feels emotions is the most hilarious thing to me.

[mepnklz]

When a poor person has a boat and lives in it, it’s called being “homeless”. But when a millionare lives on a boat it’s called being “adventurous” or “living the dream”, or having an “exotic excentric lifestyle”

[iamthesoutherner]

This isn't about safety, it's about keeping the property value high 🤷🤷

[BeneathAcacia]

My heart goes out to the poor millionaires who struggle so much in life to ruin everyone else’s life around them

[alexmac]

Not sure which was a bigger lie, the millionaire saying he felt bad about the anchor-outs losing their homes, or the part where he said he pays his taxes.

[jacobmrdutt]

The rich finance guy’s frustration is understandable, but the way he just stereotypes all of them as being meth addicts or burnouts is very telling of his attitude. He looks down at them from his ivory tower and doesn’t care where they go as long as they are out of his line of sight. Cares more about his property value than human beings.

[virgilpalmer]

You can tell about a man's integrity, by how he treats the poor....

[emeraldforcier]

As a former maid for a couple of these neighbors, I can assure you their money was inherited, not earned. No one in the neighborhood works hard or is even tired when they get home. Once home, they complain about the “entitled attitude” of the poor while drinking wine that costs more than a hotel room.

[thisisqualia]

I got emotional when the Millionaire said it was a bummer having boats in his backyard... Life is hard, man.

[darcybhaiwala]

when will people recognize that working hard doesn't equal wealth

[strangelitgirl]

To describe the anchor outs the wealthy guy says “ they don’t want to spend money, pay rent or pay taxes”. He just described most wealthy people in America.

[Unknown_Ooh]

"theres no buildable land left here" so you built giant houses with ten bedrooms, seven bathrooms all for one, two or three people?

[dakotamorlan]

Imagine living in a waterfront mansion on one of the most beautiful bays in the world and focusing your energy on making unfortunate people even more so.

[carlee]

What's shocking is how concerned these home-owners appear to be with the "environmental impact" of the boats. As though companies they work for don't account for 99% of the pollution in the ocean. Those boats are literally a drop in the ocean when it comes to pollution and the real culprits are white collar.

[Joe-lrou]

I love how when the millionaire was confronted with the question of where those people would live if they were kicked out, he just basically said "idk lmao not my problem". Really shows the consequences of wealth inequality.

[michaelporter]

I'm from San Francisco. To give you more background here, the waterfront homes in Marin County (in the Tiburon area), are worth an average of $5M - $15M. The people who live there are not just rich or millionaires, they are wealthy beyond measure. As a San Francisco native who has watched my city price out generations of residents, it's almost comical to watch these people who live on the Marin County waterfront complain about anchor-outs. Now I could understand if the anchor-outs broke into their houses, stole from them, etc, but to get upset at their existence is honestly a mix of hilarious and infuriating

[Elizabethcu]

This guy/home owner reeks of smug and entitlement. He has no answers. I love it